Scene 78 The Tip of the Iceberg

The four inner court knights are still persuading Earl Jean.

Earl Jean obviously did not believe the statement about the Jorgendigan invasion, just like Rogers and others who persuaded him would not have believed that the underground army of Jorgendigan would suddenly appear on the surface if they had not seen it with their own eyes. After all, the world below is too far away for them. The caveman and the minotaur in the maze are all terrifying creatures in the bedside stories. Although he couldn't explain the reason why his ally disappeared, he could only believe that it was Brando's private conspiracy, but he couldn't see through the other party's plot.

But whether he wants to or not, Brando's so-called 'persuasion' is not so much a suggestion as a threat, and in the end he has to reluctantly hand over command.

The setting sun was setting, and the setting sun sank into the mountains in the west little by little, and the whole hilly area seemed to have fallen into a strange silence. The lights of Vargus could no longer be seen in the Yongyin Valley in the north, and the sky was pitch black. After the land quieted down, the silence was eerie.

The four inner court knights walked silently on the edge of the red pine forest. After walking for a while, the female knight Nasha finally couldn't help but said: "Perhaps Earl Jean is right. The situation is not that bad. It was just a rogue from Jorgendigon, and that sort of thing happens a lot, doesn't it?"

Rogers frowned tightly and did not answer.

"Then what's the explanation for those weird beams of light and meteors across the sky we saw last night, and the interference of Kui's communication magic, this is a premeditated attack," Trevor shook his head: "Jean That old Earl just doesn't want to bow his head to the Eruin, you and I both understand that the nobles in these places have always been stubborn and face-saving."

Nasha was silent for a moment, as if she wanted to find a reason to refute, but couldn't convince herself. Finally, she asked with some concern: "If Jogendigon does invade us, how bad will it be for the Empire?"

"It depends on how large the invasion of George Root is." Rogers replied in a deep voice.

"How large-scale do you think this invasion will be? Could they really threaten the empire's defense line in the south?" Nasha asked in disbelief.

No one seems to be able to answer this question. They more or less feel that Brando is alarmist, but Rogers and Trevor are not familiar with the forgotten country underground. In fact, most people even recognize the entire underground ethnic group. people are rare. Rogers and Trevor suddenly thought of something, and they turned their eyes to the black-haired boy in a robe.

Kui replied calmly: "The Qiaogendigang is slightly different from us, they don't have a unified country, and only lords, big and small, exist in the dark underground.

The only exceptions are the dark elves. "

"Kui, what kind of strength can the biggest lord have?" Nasha asked.

"About equivalent to a medium-strength kingdom on the surface."

"Are there many such lords?"

Kui shook his head: "In addition to the three most well-known black dragons who were exiled by the dragon clan, they are the famous king of the Minotaur, Geralt, and Portana after Medusa, they are called the king of the underground world. "

"If you want to threaten the southern defense line of the empire, is such a lord strong enough?" Nasha asked again.

"It may be enough to put all your strength into it, but the war in the underground world seldom goes all out, because it is necessary to guard against enemies in the dark. It is a more reliable guess that the two lords will join forces, but such a lord is also second to none in Qiaogendigang , They rarely come to the surface world that is also unknown to them, if it were not for these underground kings, ordinary lords would probably need ten or even twenty of them to join forces to launch a war of this scale."

"Qui, how old do you think that might be?" Trevor asked back.

"Maybe, the underground world is a world that believes in the laws of darkness, and intrigue is the norm in the darkness. They seldom trust each other, let alone form alliances." Kui replied.

Nasha looked at her companion with some admiration: "Then is it possible for them to form an alliance under special circumstances?"

"Maybe," Kui replied, "but I'm not sure. The Earl of the Tonigal may know more about these underground people."

"Why do you say that, maybe he is just scaremongering?" The female knight was obviously not happy to hear him say that.

The black-haired boy replied: "He and the female knight next to him judged the movement of the Qiao Gendigang army quickly and confidently, which I can't do."

Trevor felt that what his companion said was exaggerated. He shook his head. Although Kui had a genius mind, he was a little worse in dealing with the world. He knew the tricks in it very well. It can be faked. Hearing Nasha's previous question, he was also a little shaken in his heart. Can Qiao Gendigang really pull out an army composed of more than ten lords to trouble the empire? The empire is indestructible in the hearts of its people. It may encounter bad luck for a while, but it is absolutely impossible to happen to encounter the worst situation by coincidence. Trevor can't even imagine that the Rokozy-Broken Sword Mountain Fortress Group will be affected. Threat, it is not a two fortresses, but a line of defense with a depth of nearly a hundred miles and complete facilities.

He vaguely agrees with the female knight's statement. Perhaps the enemy in front of him is just an army of rogues who came from the underground world to the surface world to fight the autumn wind. They may be composed of the army of one or two lords. , Come to the empire to make trouble, distract the attention of the imperial [***] team, and take the opportunity to loot.

He was thinking about this, but Rogers suddenly asked, "Kui, how strong will the power of the entire Qiaogendigang be combined?"

The black-haired boy suddenly raised his head to look at his companion who had been frowning all this time, with an inexplicable look on his face for the first time.

"That's impossible," he replied.

...

Although both Trevor and Nasha hoped that Georgen Digan's invasion of the empire was nothing more than a private act of one or two lords, but south of Rusev, at the end of the Rocchi Heights, everything that was happening was clearly counterproductive. There used to be a majestic fortress at the mountain pass, but now there are only gravel and rubble left. The whole fortress seemed to be hit from the front by a terrible force. The original intact city wall broke a huge gap, and the gap was bathed in the moonlight. , the entire section seemed to have been scorched by flames, even the bricks and stones showed a black and bright color after carbonization, and the gravel glistened, which was the crystallized sand and gravel. Such scenes are scattered throughout the fortress. In addition to the lifeless dead things, there are also charred and twisted corpses, including animals-cows, horses, donkeys, and even huge ground that was almost burned to the skeleton. The dragon, leaning against the side of the house that was also burned into a frame structure, was empty. It showed no signs of struggle, which reminded people of the time when death came. Completely reduced to ashes.

But not only animals, human corpses can also be seen everywhere, some of them are wearing armor - but now they have already turned into molten metal that melted and then solidified again, some are just civilians, but no matter whether they are old people or children, men or women , all turned into an unrecognizable coke, such corpses were scattered throughout the street, their positions showed that they were hiding from something during their lifetime, but time stopped at this last moment.

The entire fortress seemed to have been plowed from the middle. The streets and buildings in these areas became dilapidated, but other blocks were still well preserved, except that the streets and the hillsides on both sides were filled with sharp wooden stakes. Unidentified human corpses were inserted on these wooden stakes. The corpses stared blankly at the dark sky, which was covered with dark clouds, and the vitality in their eyes had already lost.

The shattered fortress turned into a dead city. There were no Cruz people and no enemies. It was as if the god of death passed by here, silently taking away all life.

This kind of scene is not the only one in the entire Rocco Highlands, east of the Broken Sword Mountain Range, but it is happening in many places at the same time. This is Pasilian Fortress, Rokozy of the Empire——Although the Broken Sword Mountain Fortress Group consists of thousands of fortresses, checkpoints, and fortresses, there are only three forts, Fort Elno, and Pasilian Fortress. The first fortress is the real core of this line of defense, and the other fortresses are built around them for the purpose of protecting them. Fort Pasilian is the last checkpoint of this line of defense in the direction of the empire. It was never captured or even attacked, but today an army with which the Cruz never dealt is rewriting that history.

When Fries woke up from the ruins, he still couldn't forget the most memorable scene he had seen in his life before. He remembered that the fortress was attacked by a group of harpies who didn't know where they came from. The commander decided that this was a monster attack, and perhaps a new lair had appeared somewhere near the fortress. This kind of thing often happens in border areas. The desolate Rokozy Highlands were originally a wandering place for monsters. The soldiers of the empire Not surprised to join the fight. Fries is an imperial crossbowman, so he will naturally participate in the battle, but he is relatively safe in the shooting room with others-although the noise on the city wall is a bit unbearable, and the militiamen's heavy equipment is pushed through the slide. The creaking sound from behind the crenel was also painful. At that time, he used the winch of the heavy crossbow to tighten the string, put the crossbow bolts, and then walked to the perforation to observe outside.

And then at that moment——

He seemed to hear a shrill scream from above the city wall. The sound seemed to descend from the sky, and it was like the howl of a ghost at midnight. The sharp howl made his hair stand on end, and then he saw A huge, cold, colorless eye like a pitch-black cast iron ball, that eye, just one glance, made him fall into an abyss, and the bone-chilling chill seemed to rise from under his feet, freezing him There, although I opened my mouth to scream, I couldn't make a sound.

He vaguely heard the terrified shouts of his colleagues from above the city wall, and the shouts merged together, as if they were describing a monster that terrified them.

But Frith hadn't had time to hear what it was, and then the earth shook, and he saw the walls of the shooting room collapse towards him, and after his feet were empty, the world fell into darkness.

After Frith regained consciousness, he realized that it was the collapsed masonry that saved his life.

It took him an unknown amount of time to lie in the darkness before he regained some strength. Then, ignoring the pain all over his body, he gritted his teeth and opened a passage through the rubble. As if miraculously, he found that he was not seriously injured. Apart from the dull pain when he breathed, it was suspected that one or two ribs were broken, his hands and feet were very dexterous, with only bruises. Climbing out, the next moment, the bleak and tragic scene in the fortress came into his eyes. Fries gritted his teeth for a moment. All this seemed to have appeared in his dream. Although he had expected it, he still couldn't help it. I trembled all over.

He raised his head and looked in the direction of the mountain pass, which was the direction where the monster army disappeared. From there was the mountain road leading to the Green Claw Fortress, and behind him was Rokozy, the heart of the Broken Sword Mountain Fortress group. His heart was cold, I have realized that this is not a monster attack at all, but a premeditated raid.

that eye...

Frith shivered and recalled the scene he had seen. He seemed to want to convince himself that it was just an illusion, but the real fear hidden in his heart reminded him of what it was.

That's a dragon—

A black dragon.

...

Cruz has a saying: Every day in the empire is calm, but every day in the empire is turbulent. This sentence may not be appropriate to describe the entire Cruz Empire, but it is more appropriate to describe ** Rusta.

Since three days ago, the White Rose Garden has been shrouded in a depressing atmosphere, and the palace of St. Cantipe is lifeless, as if everyone who walks in will be tainted with bad luck. In the past, this usually meant that Her Majesty's mood had changed again. Generally speaking, there were many factors that caused Her Majesty to be angry—for example, another nobleman made her unhappy, or let her down, or for example The Temple of Fire has offended the majesty of the Supreme Being again. It is a well-known fact that the Temple of Fire and Her Majesty the Queen often offend each other, but apart from the above two main reasons, there are some side effects The last thing, for example, the mountain people, Anzeluta people or other barbarians killed the tax collector of the empire, or several grand dukes married to the royal family sent people to a certain banquet held by Her Majesty the Queen What - the relationship between the Silver Queen and the relatives of these empires is extremely bad, which is recognized by the entire empire.

In fact, there have been some new names recently. For example, a certain Earl from Eruin is said to have become a thorn in the side of the Queen; Once His Majesty summoned her, her mood would become very bad.

But this time, there were no nobles causing trouble, and the Temple of Fire was safe and sound. Although the Seventh Prince accidentally fell into the cliff on the way back to the capital in Walachi last month and was seriously injured, the mountain people respected him. This also showed extreme obedience. They even sent an envoy to explain the matter. There's no need to get angry about it.

On the other hand, there seems to be no news from Huayeling and Ludwig, and the rumors about the Earl of Tonigel have also disappeared in the past few days, according to the news from the maid beside His Majesty , His Majesty has not summoned a certain female count recently.

The only thing that is considered news seems to be that a few days ago Banker, Violet Valley and other regions reported a rare artifact reaction, but these artifact resonances were only produced in a very small number of regions, but not in wider areas. No one has observed, and the warlocks of the Tower of Star and Moon have not yet come to a conclusion whether this is an illusion or a fact of real existence.

But in fact, only a few well-informed people in the entire circle of high-ranking nobles in the empire understood that since that day, the empire has lost news of the area south of Andzlova. The news here refers to the secret report of the inner court knights belonging to the royal family. Originally, the report was once a day, starting three days ago, from Vargus to the Bear Lake area, to Rusev, and even the entire Rokozy The range to the south of the fortress group seemed to have disappeared from the map, and the audio was lost.

If it was on weekdays, the delay of one or two days is nothing at all, but just before that, the eyes of almost the entire empire were still focused on this area, and the nobles of the empire were still waiting for Brando and Ann. The result of the last battle of the nobles in the Zeruta area, but suddenly, there was no news from this area. Whether it is a private or a spy sent by the royal family, it seems that the world has evaporated, gone forever.

Everyone immediately thought it was the work of the Earl of Tonigel.

But the news that came later caused the entire empire to fall into dead silence.

Early morning of the third day.

Constance summoned her two knight captains into the White Rose Garden—

At this moment, in front of the queen, Mr. Travis, the head of the Royal Knights, and Mr. Kevin, the head of the French Dragoons, are wiping the cold sweat from their foreheads with handkerchiefs. The Root family, and another family that also comes from the local nobles trusted by Her Majesty the Queen. Everyone will know that these two gentlemen have been secretly in charge of the foreign affairs of the inner court knights.

... (To be continued.)

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